BydoEmpire

Probably one of the ones I haven't played: Channel F, Arcadia 2001, RCA Studio 2 or Virtual Boy... not that they're bad, but I haven't experienced their cool games. Of the rest, which I've played & mostly owned, I'd probably have to go with Bally Astrocade. There are some fun games and it had some neat features, but the least amount relative to other systems. I voted for that since I didn't want to vote for a console I haven't played. Of what's not listed, I'd put the Game.com up there. I have one with a couple games, never gets used.

Best (a few random ones): Rampage - SMS Shinobi - SMS Food Fight - 7800 Burgertime - Intellivision Golden Axe - Genesis Touchmaster - DS Missile Command - 2600 Worst: Mortal Kombat Advance - GBA For me a bad port isn't just that it's not the same as the arcade game. Porting to an 8- or 16-bit console is going to take some sacrifice and creative reworking. The question for me is, does it capture the sprit of the game and more importantly, is it fun? If it does both of those, then it's a good port, imho. Games like 2600 Pac Man and 7800 Galaga, while not arcade-perfect, are still pretty fun games to me. I actually like 7800 Galaga better than the arcade because it has a slower difficulty ramp-up.

My top three: 5200 - didn't own one until about 5-6 years ago, but it's my favorite and most-played classic console since. Great games, great system. Master System - loved it in the day and still love it. Tons of great, unique games, and killer light gun game library. 7800 - picked one up cheap after I already had an NES & SMS and really enjoyed the arcade ports.

No, not even close to CDi. MS has: Tons of cash Strong existing fanbase Track record of good consoles Strong first party developers Strong first party franchises Strong 3rd party relationships (Activision, EA, UbiSoft, etc)

This.

I like 2600 Empire Strikes Back, too. Very solid take on Defender. Looks great and plays well imho. I still pop it in from time to time. Not my favorite 2600 game, but far from my least favorite.

Pitfall! or Uncharted Twisted Metal or Carmageddon Colecovision or Intellivision Doom guy or Quake guy Quake or Unreal GTA or Driver - neither Nes or Master System Xbox one or PS4(what you heard so far) Gran Turismo or Forza - neither Spacewar! or computer space Need for speed or Midnight club Mario Tennis or Sega Superstars Tennis Kinect or Eyetoy - neither Neo-Geo or TurboGrafx-16 Bust-a-Move or Lumines NES Advantage or NES Max Castlevania or Ghosts & Goblins Battlezone (2600) or Robot Tank Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy Circus Atari or Kaboom! Ninja Gaiden or Shinobi Original XBox or Gamecube - this one is really hard, as I really, really liked the Gamecube... Samus Aran,Joanna Dark, or lara Croft Game.com or DS Crash Bandicoot or Rachet and Clank Transformers,voltron,Gundam or Gobots Zelda or Neutopia Gauntlet or Dungeon Explorer Pauline or Princess Peach Donkey Kong or King Kong Microvision or PSvita - neither Odyssey or Wiiu - never played an original Odyssey, but did not like Wii-U at all the week or two I owned one...

I don't know, was that ever in question? I just assumed all my DL'd games would be worthless at some point. It's part of the deal with downloadable games. For what it's worth, I actually do want to stream Netflix... the problem is I can already do that just fine on my Wii (or computer or 360, or buy some other cheap box that can do it). Everything else has no appeal whatsoever.

Lighten up, Francis. There's no governing body that has rigidly defined these generations.

Bolded my picks: Goldeneye or Perfect Dark Ocarina of time or Majora's Mask Pokemon Red or Blue - never played either, no preference Tetris or Columns GameBoy or GameGear Super Mario bros. or Sonic the hedgehog SNES or Genesis (by a hair...) Street Fighter or Tekken Mario Kart 64 or Crash Team Racing Blast Prossessing or Mode 7

"Game System" means "console," to me, and to every maker of consoles and computers ever who all tried to distance their products from the other side. Trying to keep the thread light-hearted...

Can someone remind me what the "G" and "S" in XEGS stands for? Oh yeah... The slanted cartridge slot doesn't bother me at all. It's not like it makes it any harder to put in a cart than one that's parallel with case. The pastel buttons, yeah, that's a weird aesthetic. Overall, though I think the XEGS is a pretty cool-looking console.

Hah, nicely done!

I freaking hate that about G&G. I started going through it the 2nd time, quit, and never played the game again.

I look at it like a console. It was marketed and packaged as a console, and functions like a console. I love my XEGS.

I'm not really a huge fan of Disney, but I wouldn't call them the "Evil Empire."

Of the three listed, in order: 1) 2600 - best game selection, most absolutely killer and re-playable games 2) Intellivision - awesome original games, lots of variety, solid arcade ports 3) Colecovision - too many games play choppy to me, and the stock controllers are second worst only to the 7800. The Super Action Controllers are great, though. Definitely some good games, but I'd almost always rather play other systems. If you include other systems of the era, I'd put 5200 above Colecovision in the 3 spot, and Odyssey 2 just behind at 4. I'd like to put Vectrex in there somewhere, but I've only played one briefly and never owned one.

No particular order in each genre, vaguely chronological. Shooters: Demon Attack (2600) R-Type (SMS, Arcade) Battle Squadron (Amiga) RPGS: Pool of Radiance (c64/Amiga) Might & Magic (Apple 2) Dungeon Master (Amiga) Ultima Underworld (PC) Final Fantasy 3 (SNES) Morrowind (PC) Fighting: Street Fighter 2 (SNES) Street Figher Alpha 3 (PS1) Soul Calibur (DC) Capcom vs. SNK 2 (DC) Racing: Enduro (2600) Auto Racing (Intellivision) Metropolis Street Racer (DC) Platformer: Super Mario Brothers 2 (NES) Alex Kidd in Miracle World (SMS) Super Mario World (SNES) Sonic the Hedgehog (Genny) Action/Platformer: Shadow of the Beast (Amiga) CastleVania: SotN (PS1) Metroid (NES) Super Metroid (SNES) Strategy: Utopia (Intellivision) Star Fleet I (Apple 2) Empire (PC) Civilization (PC) X-Com (PC) FPS: Doom (PC) GoldenEye 007 (N64) Metroid: Prime (NGC) Bioshock (360) Sports: Summer/Winter/World Games (c64) Ice Hockey (NES) NHL '94 (Genny) NBA Live (Genny, PS1) Madden (multiple - mostly Genesis)

That's where your imagination is supposed to come in. I do agree the "retro" pixely style has been a bit overdone and isn't right for every game, but I still prefer that to the cartoony look. Hard to find iOS games that doesn't have that uber-cartoony, big-head aesthetic. Just not a fan. Back OT, I could probably tell modern games apart if I cared about them enough to look.

+1 - it's one of my favorite 2600 games. Loved it back in the day, love it now. I loved the arcade version, and picked it up for Saturn. Campy fun, but still a lot of fun. "Look up!" "Look right!"

Except the old arcade games were designed to be fun games first, then tested to make sure they made money. There was usually the possibility of playing a long time if you got really, really good. Now most people never got really, really good, and to get there you had to spend a lot of money. But that's a whole different design philosophy than creating an economy and then wrapping a "game" around it.

To be fair, it's not just EA, Facebook games fall by the wayside almost daily. If they can't support the users, why keep them around? The games are free and on Facebook, so it's not like you bought a disc that's no longer usable.

Yeah, we've been using the Wii as a Netflix player in the living room for a while now and it's been fantastic. Sounds like that's not affected by these changes. *whew*